It has been broken for yours. Recovery mode has not worked for my in the field. Either an update turned of making snapshot backups or it demands the admin password then refuses to admit it is valid denying to roll back settings. 1 time this year an update turned bitlocker on when it was off despite it being off on the server level and screen of death bitlocker screen appeared wanting a unlock code that no one had because it turned itself on and never told the azure server. Fresh install is the only answer or jumping away from MS. Like our aging machines we are converting to ChromeOS making them secure speed demons.

Right, the economist refer to this as "externality". Fossil fuels aren't cheap, if you factor in the costs that people using them transfer to third parties. Theoretically, if the true cost of using fossil fuels were factored into every pound of coal or gallon of gasoline consumed, then we would use *exactly the right amount* of fossil fuels. Probably not zero, but not as much as we do when we pretend pollution isn't a cost.

As I replied to you elsewhere, yes, the per capita rate is imporant, but Americans insist on making absolute comparisons.

The absolute comparison also isn't entirely irrelevant. The article uses electrical generation as a proxy for GDP, a widely used practice and one that probably underestimates China if anything. So total electrical generation indicates the economic power represented by a particular political entity. Monaco and Liechenstein are not superpowers even though their GDP/capita are more than twice the US's and the threat of sanctions from Ireland doesn't carry the same weight as those from the US.

No, they were still terrible. But they were all there was.

Perhaps you've never had or don't remember the experience of carefully checking the polarity and voltage on a wall wart barrel jack and then holding your breath as you plugged it into your expensive gizmo.

Many cell phone chargers will charge a laptop. You can charge a Macbook pro using an iPhone charger.

But sure, you might have one of the old 15 W phone chargers. So chargers state their power output and the USB spec limits the current so any up to spec charger that advertises 36 W (12 V @ 3A) or more should charge any laptop, unless you've got something super weird.

USB guarantees negotiationless current at 5V and 0.5 A. Raspberry Pi decided to use an optional negotiationless mode instead of implementing PD like they should have.

You're very unlikely to find a 15W+ charger that doesn't offer the optional 5V 3A though. No, the Pi 4 doesn't require 4 A, which is not a supported configuraiton under the USB spec, even with PD.

The little two-shot moka pots are great for camping too.

If you mean why is the US dollar the most common reserve currency, it's because the US made everyone send them their gold after WWII. Since then it's dropped to 50-60% and is still falling. The reason it's not lower is because the US federal government auctions off about a trillion and a half of them a year.

It sounds like you buy a lot of shady stuff that doesn't meet the USB certification.

Barrel jacks are a terrible idea from the dawn of technology. Plug the wrong one in and fry something. Drop it in a puddle and fry something. And if you're dumb enough to put 200 Watts over it the thing you fry might be your house.

The inability to connect always live no matter what power directly into a device is a feature.

EA specifically makes a lot of its money from having agreements with other big companies: FIFA, NFL, NHL, F1, NBA, etc. That requires a lot of money that the employees probably don't have, and also probably multi-year exclusive contracts EA has locked up.

However, they could quit and go make new games instead of adding a few more polys to the models and updating the database of player names every year. Maybe ask the union for some startup capital. Helping employee-owned companies get started would seem to be an excellent goal for a union.

That's what they've done. Or rather they've bought the politicians who create the regulatory frameworks. But if people woke up and realized they've been frog-boiled into giving away their privacy, then that would be prohibitively expensive.

Bullshit. The US had the same freakout when it was Japan, a staunch ally with a higher quality democracy than the US and nonagression written right into its constitution.

You should take the GPs advice and click on the link.

China's electrical generation didn't just overtake the US and it certainly isn't going to "overtake in the future." It overtook around 2010. Its now about 2x and growing possibly exponentially while the US pretty much levelled off around 2010.

Yes. The US should stop comparing itself to a country that's four times as large, at least in absolute terms. However, they insist on doing so. Possibly rates and ratios were one of those educational things politicians were not in favour of.